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解雇 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • dismiss verb To fire someone from a job, or to formally end someone's employment.
  • dismissal noun The act of firing someone from their job.
  • fire noun The chemical reaction of burning, producing heat, light, and flame.
  • terminate verb To bring something to an end.
  • termination noun The act of ending something, or the state of having ended.

Senses

解雇 is used for these senses in English:

  • dismiss (transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.
  • dismissal Deprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.
  • fire (transitive, employment) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct, incompetence, or poor performance).
  • termination The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.

dismiss — full definition

  1. verb To fire someone from a job, or to formally end someone's employment.
  2. verb To refuse to take something seriously or to consider it worth thinking about.
  3. verb To tell someone they are free to leave.

dismissal — full definition

  1. noun The act of firing someone from their job.
  2. noun The rejection of a legal case, claim, or idea.

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